By Ben Boddez
The former YouTube star and sonic experimentalist’s latest set of tracks takes influence from global musical cultures and follows a sailor lost at sea.
SuziWithAnUzi — Baby Teeth
Ontario: Top 10 of 2021
by Daniel McIntosh
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On the cover of Baby Teeth, SuziWithAnUzi appears as the victim of a violent crime. Blood splays across the all-white background, while her eyes roll back, half-opened. The image belies the sweet sentiments and mysticism within the album, revealing another welcome layer behind the horrorcore imagery and heavy beats. Far from simple emo, Baby Teeth sees Suzi calls upon the stars (“I’m a Cancer, Babe”) in sorting out the tea leaves of love and relationships. When the album dips into pop-punk (“Rental”) and R&B (“DND”), she reveals a significant range and a soft centre behind the bared fangs.
Bo Burnham’s transcendent comedy special isn’t the only great piece of COVID-adjacent art titled Inside released this year. The indie-rock quintet’s latest opens and closes with the sounds of the 7pm clanging pots and pans that once heralded the essential workers, and many of the tracks find them grappling with introspective thoughts while trapped in a room – being stuck inside one’s own head being an even worse fate than the physical boundaries.
By Megan Magdalena
The LA psych-punk shapeshifters on the special bond of friendship and the electric energy that fuels their legendary live shows.
By Khagan Aslanov
Johnny Stewart weaves a moody genre mosaic from the unlikely calm of Clayoquot Sound.
